The Paris group Les Chaussettes Noires with their singer Eddy Mitchell (born Claude Moine) were just about the best of the French rock’n’roll groups that sprung up after 1960. Like the others, most of their songs were covers, but they did a good job in adapting the originals so that there’s nearly always something fresh in their performances.
1961.01.30 ‘tu parles trop’ on the French RTF channel
1961.04.19 ‘hey, Pony!’ at the Rue de la Gaité, Paris
1961.05.30 ‘Eddie, sois bon’ at the Golf Drouot club, Paris
1961 ‘je t’aime trop’ on scopitone (2 edited versions below)
1961 ‘be-bop-a-lula’ on scopitone
1961.10.28 ‘be-bop-a-lula’ on the Swiss RTS channel
1962 ? medley ‘Dactylo rock’ & ‘le twist’
1962 ‘Daniela’ on scopitone
1962 ‘quand je te vois’
1962 summer ‘c’est bien mieux comme ça’ (along with actress Dany Saval mouthing Gillian Hills’s voice) from the film ‘Les Parisiennes’
1962.07 ‘boing boing’ (with a hesitating Dany Saval) from the 1963 film ‘Comment réussir en amour’
1962 ‘le twist du canotier’ (curious effort to make famous balladeer Maurice Chevalier sing a rockin’ song backed by the Chaussettes Noires without Eddy who was doing his national service at the time and also without Maurice who was replaced in the clip by another old-time balladeer Jean Valton).
1962.06.19 ‘âge tendre et tête de bois’ (inst.) at the Golf Drouot club, Paris (‘Age tendre et tête de bois’ was the French tv music program aimed at young people that ran from 1961 to 1965, again Eddy was doing his military service)
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